Austere in example sentence
Monks find their life’s meaning in a most austere environment, and military boot camps are thought to build character.
More example sentences with word austere
If we look out at the natural world, there's no part of that world that doesn't go through cycles of, first, incipience, or hiddenness, but then growth, fullness, but then a beautiful, to begin with, disappearance, and then a very austere, full disappearance. 
